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Almost all my builds use the Samsung Evo NVMe drives. They are affordable and make booting and programs very responsive. Pair this with a SATA drive to hold games and large code repositories for a beautiful pairing.

While this is my first time building a PC, I’ve swapped out HDD’s and SSD’s in the past and Samsung has never let me down. This M.2 SSD is reserved for my OS and is blazing fast. I have absolutely nothing but love for this part.

So far so good, very fast speeds. I've been getting write speeds upward of 2500Mb/s, even though it's only rated for 2300, so I'm impressed. The difference isn't actually noticeable though with boot times or anything, but mainly when dealing with large files.